Supplementary Therapies
Discover your potential
Move to heal
Rehabilitation following surgery is a delicate passage requiring experience and expertise. Our skilled senior physiotherapists and occupational therapists provide effective, long-term outcomes to assist the recovery and restoration of body functions.
Therapy Components
- Pain management
- Restoring joint range of motion
- Early mobilisation
- Progressive resistance training
- Gait retraining
- Improve mobility and flexibility
- Improve proprioception and balance
- Activities of daily living (ADLs) retraining
- Caregiver training
Healing through water
Hydrotherapy is the union between water and physiotherapy. It is a form of exercise in warm water and an effective treatment for elders with neurologic and musculoskeletal conditions such as stroke, Parkinson’s disease, arthritis, lower back injuries and chronic pain. The buoyancy, warmth, hydrostatic pressure, drag and turbulence creates a unique environment for rehabilitation, to achieved movements unattainable with land-based therapy.
Each hydrotherapy session is led by two members of the allied healthcare team; a physiotherapist and therapy assistant. Exercises are tailored to individual needs to complement or facilitate a return to land-based rehabilitation.
Therapy Benefits
- Pain relief and muscle spasm treatment
- Improve blood flow and circulation
- Enhance muscle activation
- Increase flexibility and mobility
- Restore lost movement patterns
- Develop motor control
- Improve muscular strength
- Build cardiovascular endurance
- Achieve functional independence
Recovery at home
Our home therapy provides rehabilitation treatment to support recovery of functional abilities. Our allied health professionals work with you to create a personalised care programme that focuses on treatment specific to your physiotherapy or occupational therapy needs. They travel to your home, empowering you to enjoy a higher quality of life in the comfort of your home.
Home therapy help elders with recovery after surgery, injury or at risk of falling, and elders with chronic conditions improve or maintain functional wellness.
Physiotherapy
- Therapeutic pain management
- Post-hospitalisation rehabilitation
- Customised exercise programme
- Fall prevention strategies
- Chronic disease management
Occupational Therapy
- Activities of daily living (ADL) retraining
- Stroke rehabilitation
- Upper limb rehabilitation
- Powered mobility training
- Cognitive activities
- Assistive devices prescription and training
- Home assessment and modification plan
Healing through nutrition
Dietetics has an integral role in supporting elders in their recovery, rehabilitation and reablement. Nutrition in a rehabilitation environment helps to improve functional levels for effective rehabilitation outcomes. Good nutrition also improves quality of life for elders living with other health issues such as raised cholesterol, diabetes and mental health conditions.
Our rehabilitation dietitian specialises in working with older adults, using advanced scientific information, to support a wide range of nutritional needs, from malnutrition, altered taste, texture requirements, to specialist tube feeding regimes.
Therapy Components
- Nutritional status assessment
- Identification of special dietary needs
- Individualised nutrition plan
- Provision of medical nutritional therapy
- Advocacy for best-practice care
- Multidisciplinary care management
- Supervision of meal preparation and service
- Review of nutritional status
- Monitoring treatment outcomes
- Preventive nutritional counselling
- Caregiver education
Your helping hand
Medical social workers are key contributors in the rehabilitation and recovery care continuum. They help elders and their families understand a particular condition, supporting them through the emotional and social responses to illness and treatment. Our medical social worker has journeyed with many families through challenging situations, providing invaluable support and advice to improve well-being and fulfil basic and complex needs.
Support Services
- Initial screening and evaluation
- Comprehensive psychosocial assessment
- Collaborative care planning
- Help with decision-making
- Case management for complex needs
- Transition of care
- Crisis intervention
- Collaborate with healthcare team members
- Continuity and care ordination